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A scan of a frame from the first ever Dan Dare story, which ran in Eagle during 1950 and 1951.

My thanks
to Terry
Doyle for supplying the above scan. Terry also provided this commentary
to accompany the scan:

EAGLE Vol. 1 No. 48 - PILOT OF THE FUTURE
This page sticks in the mind, for me, as most of the page featured in Peter Nicholls' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION (Granada, 1979),
to represent the listing on DAN DARE. This opening panel is very symbolic, showing the build-up to the Treen/Theron conflict on Venus.